The cover art for the Trainwreckers’ latest release features a stock font touting both the name of the band and the album, framing an austere yet seductive illustration by Sean Tracey of a scantily clad gal propped up in front of a vintage Victrola. The simple design is the ideal…
Like attack ads during election season, the jewelry commercials are set to overdrive. Rose prices have gone up, like, one billion percent. Everywhere you look, it’s all pink and red and hearts. Yep, V-Day is upon us. You know what that means, right? It means that after you get all…
The D Note in Olde Town Arvada is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend. The two-night celebration will be bittersweet, as it will also serve as a goodbye party of sorts for the DeGraff family, who recently sold the venue to Dave and Mernie Rosenberg. Adam DeGraff, who has booked…
Looks like all the Whos from Whoville showed up last night in force at the Pepsi Center in support of their favorite band, and they all came wearing their adoration on their sleeves. We sent intrepid roving photographer Brandon Marshall out with specific marching orders to roam the concourse and…
FEED ME WITH TEETH @ OGDEN THEATRE | 2/12/13 As the stage-sized curtain dropped, the lights went down, the entire Ogden erupted with glee, and the place immediately lit back up — with cell phones. Nearly everyone in the theater was holding a phone up. While we’ve certainly seen this…
THE WHO @ PEPSI CENTER |2/12/13 Pete Townshend’s first windmill of the night last night at the Pepsi Center came during “The Real Me.” Seeing the famous windup in person is an entirely different experience from merely listening to Townshend’s fretwork on the recordings, which is exciting and energetic in…
TY SEGALL @ HI DIVE | 2/12/13 Ty Segall and his band must have been feeling nostalgic as they performed the final set of what looks like a monster tour. Over the past three months, they’ve been going nonstop between enviable European destinations to the West and East coasts and…
Bluegrass aficiandos, rejoice! Time to break out the banjos. The Midwinter Bluegrass Festival, which kicks off this Friday, February 15, and runs through Sunday, February 17, will give you all the bluegrass you can handle this weekend with performances by a parade of the area’s prime purveyors from Finnders and…
After revealing part of its lineup last month, Communikey organizers revealed the rest of the headliners for this year’s edition of CMKY, their annual Boulder-based electronic festival. In addition to the acts already announced, including Nicolas Jaar, Valentin Stip, Demon John, Mountains, Safety Scissors, Derek Plaslaiko, Andrew Weathers and Spoolius…
There are a number of excellent shows to let you know about this week, including Bruno Mars, Foals, Purity Ring, Band of Horses and Drive-By Truckers, all of which go on sale this week, plus dates from Leftover Salmon, Spiritualized, Bob Mould, Boris, the Rocket Summer, Shabazz Palaces/THEESatisfaction and Peelander-Z,…
Although to our knowledge, Mike Marchant’s name has never appeared in bold print in the New York Times touting the local scene, he’s a local treasure and has most certainly played a crucial role in helping to make the music in this town infinitely more compelling. He first made a…
Fancy yourself an expert on all things Denver, do ya? Think you know which place has the best jukebox in town? What about the best new club night? Best new band? What was the best concert you went to last year? What about the best album? Don’t let all that…
Founded in 1985 by a group of teenage friends who had been part of the Bay Area hardcore scene, Neurosis was never just a conventional band. Dabbling in heady ideas and archetypes of the human imagination, Neurosis is one of the most influential metal bands of the last two decades,…
If ever there was somebody who knows about love, it’s got to be Taylor Swift. After all, she’s pretty much written the 21st century book of love. Sure, she’s only 23, but even so, she seems to know a thing or two about relationships — god knows, the girl’s certainly…
With Valentine’s Day just a few day away, we can all use all the help we can get in the love department. So what better time than now to delve into the R. Kelly canon and pull out some valuable lessons on love? Is there anyone who knows the ways…
After two years of dropping deep house beats at Lipgloss, option4 (aka Brennen Bryarly) will be bidding farewell this weekend to the long-running indie-dance night, performing his final set this Friday night at Beauty Bar before moving on to his own residency at NORAD. We spoke with both Bryarly and…
OM first formed when Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius got together a handful of years after their old band Sleep parted ways in the late ’90s. The idea was to create a project that used rhythms to convey meaning in a fashion akin to Tibetan devotional music or Gregorian chants…
Known for a diverse music scene, Memphis, Tennessee has become known for its punk and garage rock scene, thanks to acts like the Oblivions, the Reatards and the bands championed by Goner Records. Ex-Cult came out of that punk world but ended up making the kind of rock and roll…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it’s not surprising that the most common (and favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn’t you know it, off…
Bummer news if you’re like us and were totally looking forward to catching OFF! this Sunday, February 17, at the Marquis Theater. We’ve just received confirmation that the show has been canceled — well, the entire tour has been canceled, actually. Keith Morris, OFF!’s legendary frontman, is reportedly recovering from…
The Vaccines formed in London in 2010, when Justin Young shelved his solo project, Jay Jay Pistolet, and got together with some friends who had also played gigs with him under his old moniker. The new band came out of punk, and its songs have an undeniably raw energy despite…
The Grammys are supposed to be “music’s biggest night.” Unfortunately, the only person who truly believes this is the copywriter who came up with that tagline. There are easily five festivals every year with stakes to the same claim. One of the highlights of this year’s Grammys was a Bruno…
